Annal:2004 Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature
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Results of the Academy Award® in the year 2004. For a ranked list of films, try an honor roll:
- 2004 Oscar-Animation winner
- 2004 Saturn-Animated winner
- 2004 BAFTA-Children nominee
- 2004 Golden Globe-Musical/Comedy nominee
- 2004 Hugo-Video nominee
- 2004 MTV-Movie nominee
- Score: 44.54
A delightful undersea world unfolds in Pixar’s animated adventure Finding Nemo. When his son Nemo is captured by a scuba-diver, a nervous-nellie clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) sets off into the vast—and astonishingly detailed—ocean to find him. Along the way he hooks up with a scatterbrained blue tang fish named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), who’s both helpful and a hindrance, sometimes at the same time. Faced with sharks, deep-sea anglers, fields of poisonous jellyfish, sea turtles, pelicans, and much more, Marlin rises above his neuroses in…
- 2004 Oscar-Animation nominee
- 2004 Saturn-Animated nominee
- Score: 12.54
Brother Bear has a dramatic story—after he kills a bear, a young hunter named Kenai (voiced by Joaquin Phoenix, Gladiator) in prehistoric North America is turned into a bear himself and hunted by his own brother—but the animated movie’s tone is more earnest and warm than tragic, focusing on the unfolding relationship between Kenai and an orphaned bear cub named Koda (voiced by Jeremy Suarez). However, it’s often the comic supporting characters who prove the most popular, and a pair of moose voiced by Rick Moranis and Doug Thomas in their McKenzie…
- 2004 Oscar-Animation nominee
- Score: 6.54
Words cannot capture the delights of The Triplets of Belleville, an astonishing animated movie from the mind of French director Sylvain Chomet. In fact, there are only a few spoken sentences in the entire film; most of the soundtrack is a mix of squeaks, barks, and the jazzy music of Benoit Charest. A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to…
